The 50th session of the UN Human Rights Council took place from 13 June to 8 July. Below you will find information on some of the key sexual rights-related: resolutions, panel discussions and oral statements.
The 50th session of the UN Human Rights Council will take place from 13 June to 8 July.
The 49th session of the UN Human Rights Council took place from 28 February to 1 April, 2022.
The 49th session of the UN Human Rights Council will take place from 28 February to 1 April.
The 48th session of the UN Human Rights Council took place from 13 September to 11 October.
Una versión abreviada de esta declaración con el número actualizado de firmantes se entregará oralmente el 4 de octubre de 2021 ante el Consejo de Derechos Humanos.
Please note that an abbreviated version of this statement with the updated number of signatories will be delivered orally on October 4, 2021 at the Human Rights Council.
The 47th session of the UN Human Rights Council took place from June 21 to July 14, 2021.
La 47ª Sesión del Consejo de Derechos Humanos de la ONU (CDH) se llevó a cabo del 21 de junio al 14 de julio de 2021.
In this context, also in Latin America, neoliberal, conservative and anti-gender actors, within and outside the state, were very active in attacking policies and legislation that could advance sexual rights and rights to equality, including gender equality, to create barriers in their implementation or to establish measures of state control and authoritarianism. Although it is important to note that the ferocity of such measures was not as much as in Latin America as in Eastern European countries, Egypt or Russia, it is nevertheless true that these groups found new arguments during the pandemic to add to those they already used. They took advantage of measures adopted by governments to disseminate their perspectives in different ways; from demonstrations to social networks and other virtual media, their speeches included allusions to different conspiracy theories, invocations to restrict rights and distributed false information, all combined to confuse audiences.
The UN General Assembly recently elected 14 new Human Rights Council members for a period of three years starting in January 2020.
The 42nd session of the UN Human Rights Council took place from September 9 to September 27, 2019.
Country: Belize
Collaborators: SRI, United Belize Advocacy Movement
Key Words: Sexual orientation and gender identity; Human rights; Right to education; Discrimination; Sexual and reproductive rights; HIV/AIDS; Stigma.
Country: China
Collaborators: SRI
Key Words: Sexual orientation and gender identity; Right to freedom of expression; Right to education; Right to health.
Country: Malaysia
Human Rights Council – 25th session – March 2014
UPR Submissions - 4th session
Sexual Rights at the 40th UN Human Rights Council
